Dead Rising 2: Off The Record Announced

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Still furious at Dead Rising 2 standalone episodes Case Zero and Case West not seeing a PC release? Nevermind. Not sure what they are? OK.

Forget all that, because Capcom’s announced something much more significant that will be seeing a PC release. Dead Rising 2: Off The Record is Dead Rising 2 re-imagined with photojournalist Frank West, the protagonist from the first Dead Rising, replacing motocross star Chuck Greene. Sound like a cheap cash-in? You’d be wrong, sir. DEAD wrong. Full features list and debut trailer after the jump.

More Features

– Frank west is back – The original Dead Rising hero returns to get the scoop on the Fortune City outbreak.

– Fortune City but not as you know it – Experience a re-interpretation of the Fortune City outbreak through the eyes and camera of photojournalist Frank West.

Have to say, not much of draw for us PC owners denied Frank’s first outing…cue mass calls of “Frank who?”

This announcement smells of a cheapo re-release. “Shove in a bit of new content, polish the game from all the bug reports the original generated and call it ‘enhancements’ then charge full price again and let’s all go celebrate on the pistes!”

I’m not normally so cynical but this smells…wrong, like the UnDead themselves.

This isn’t actually DLC, its a whole separate release. Its sort of like the stand alone bundle for the GTA4 episodes The map is roughly the same, but there are new missions and characters with a few new locations and weapons.

If it’s like that then they’ll be asking 15-20 quid for it, like they were for the GTA episodes (Or £30 on console). Which puts it firmly as a no in my book.

I liked DR2, but I haven’t even bothered completing it. Paying two-thirds of what I paid for the full game for something I probably won’t go near after I’ve played for a couple of hours is too rich for my blood.

There were apparently some issues with the pacing in DR2 – I think the RPS WIT mentioned that you were always fighting against the clock to complete missions, killing the free roaming fun to be had.

Now, when I read that it really put me off because I just want to play, I don’t want to solve missions or do anything that sounds too much like a job (a side-effect of having a job, probably). If this re-packaging does away with that then I’d probably take a look.

“If it’s like that then they’ll be asking 15-20 quid for it, like they were for the GTA episodes (Or £30 on console). Which puts it firmly as a no in my book.”

If this is only half as good or has half as much new content as the GTA Episodes, then this will bei the second best “Could also be DLC” (which the GTA Episodes were) thing ever (after the GTa Episodes).

SInce the GTA Episodes were DLC once I can rightly say: best value for DLC since the invention of DLC.

I do wonder how many people will dismiss it though purely because they’re using the name ‘Dead Rising 2’ – making it seem very much like an expansion. If you ask me, it would have been better to drop the numbering perhaps?

You do know that the game doesn’t stop, even if you completely fail the main plot thread, right? Dead Rising 2 is specifically designed to break the souls of those poor, demented, OCD-ridden folks who must do everything 100% perfectly first time through.

Friend got me Dead Rising 2 to play trough in Coop, something that worked once and then never again no matter how much we tried. So it’s gaining virtual dust on my steam account… So thanks but no thanks.

Just reminding those poor, nervous people who can’t play games with time-limits or any kind of pressure:

You only need to deal with those in Dead Rising 1 OR 2 if you want the best ending. The game continues anyway, sidequests still happen, bosses can still be fought just if you spend all your time running around in womens clothing and slapping zombies with handbags.

Yes, even the little girl can die horribly, and the game will still go on. You might feel bad about it, but it’s a zombie horror setting, and unlike 99% of games, things CAN go badly wrong and it won’t cause the entire universe to just scream to a juddering halt.

So get over that OCD and actually play the damn thing, and stop trying to be a crazy perfectionist, because it’s almost completely impossible to do everything right in a single playthrough. People will die, mistakes will be made. Best you can reasonably hope for is just completing the main plot thread, which you have plenty of time for.